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title: "Average Salary in Richmond, VA"
description: "Mean $68,400, median $51,460 in the Richmond metro area (BLS OEWS May 2025), with prices and top jobs."
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/average-salary/richmond-va"
last-updated: "2026-10-15T08:19:32.066Z"
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# Average salary in Richmond, VA

Richmond, VA metropolitan statistical area. Mean annual wage $68,400, median $51,460 (US: $69,770 / $50,980), BLS OEWS May 2025, 660,350 jobs. Median at national-average prices: $52,590.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $30,030 |
| 25th | $37,290 |
| 50th | $51,460 |
| 75th | $80,120 |
| 90th | $124,670 |

| Price level (BEA RPP 2024, US = 100) | Index |
| --- | --- |
| All items | 97.9 |
| Housing (rents) | 99.1 |
| Goods | 96.8 |
| Utilities | 89.2 |
| Other services | 98.6 |

## Highest-paying jobs (mean annual wage)

- [Nurse Anesthetist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/nurse-anesthetist): $236,620
- [Pathologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/pathologist): $218,170
- [Dentist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/dentist): $212,010
- [Pediatrician, General](https://nuecareer.com/careers/pediatrician-general): $204,320
- [Physicist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/physicist): $202,260
- [IT Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/it-manager): $196,750
- [Financial Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager): $192,090
- [Marketing Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/marketing-manager): $187,800
- [Sales Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-manager): $182,190
- [Compensation and Benefits Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/compensation-and-benefits-manager): $175,510

Occupation pay is the OEWS May 2025 metro mean as published in the DOL OFLC 2026–27 wage file (metro-level estimates only).

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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